The intersection of tattoos and technology often reveal pretty fascinating results. Add another artistic element to it, such as music, and it becomes hard not to take a look and listen.

Using a tattoo as a music score, Dmitry Morozov, a Russian artist, musician, and engineer, has created "Reading my body": an instrument -- a sound controller -- that plays as it moves along the body over the tattoo.

Here's what Dmitry says of his project:

This is a special instrument that combines human body and robotic system
into a single entity that is designed to automate creative process in an
attempt to represent the artist and his instrument as a creative
hybrid. The device consists of a railing with comfortable hand holders
and two parallel, but offset from each other black lines' sensors that
move along the arm using a stepper motor. It is equipped with a
3-dimensional Wii remote controller that uses the OSC protocol in order
to give a possibility of additional expression achieved by moving hand
in space.

The sound to me is eerie yet beautiful, almost like the soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic film. And the tattoo design itself is bold and interesting.